2025 Audie Award Winners

Science Fiction

• WINNER: The Book of Doors, Gareth Brown, narrated by Miranda Raison (HarperAudio)
• Mal Goes to War, Edward Ashton, narrated by Katharine Chin & John Pirhalla (Macmillan Audio)
• Frontier, Grace Curtis, narrated by Aven Shore (Tantor Audio)
• Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie, narrated by Adjoa Andoh (Hachette Audio)
• System Collapse, Martha Wells, narrated by Kevin R. Free (Recorded Books)

Fantasy

• WINNER: Bookshops & Bonedust, written and narrated by Travis Baldree (Macmillan Audio)
• The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman, narrated by Lev Grossman & Nicholas Guy Smith (Penguin Random House Audio)
• Goddess of the River, Vaishnavi Patel, narrated by Sneha Mathan (Hachette Audio)
• Black Shield Maiden, Willow Smith & Jess Hendel, narrated by Willow Smith (Penguin Random House Audio)
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell, narrated by Carmen Rose (Tantor Audio)

Horror

• WINNER: Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle, narrated by André Santana, with special guest appearances by Charlie Jane Anders, Georgia Bird, Sarah Gailey, Stephen Graham Jones, Liz Keri, T. Kingfisher, TJ Klune, CJ Leeds, Mark Oshiro, & Mara Wilson (Macmillan Audio)
• The Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones, narrated by Barbara Crampton, Angela Goethals, Stephen Graham Jones, Andrew J. Robinson, & Isabella Star LaBlanc, with Stephen King (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• I Was a Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones, narrated by Michael Crouch & Stephen Graham Jones (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• Swarm, Jennifer D. Lyle, narrated by Krystal Hammond (Blackstone)
• A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, narrated by by Bianca Amato, Lynette R. Freeman, Eva Kaminsky, & Nancy Wu (Recorded Books)

Audio Drama

• WINNER: George Orwell’s 1984, George Orwell (adapted by Joe White), performed by by Cynthia Erivo, Natasia Demetriou, Andrew Garfield, Tom Hardy, Chukwudi Iwuji, Alex Lawther, Katie Leung, Alex Lawther, Francesca Mills, Romesh Ranganathan, & Andrew Scott (Audible Originals)

Original Work

• WINNER: Hellboy and the BPRD: The Goddess of Manhattan, Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski, narrated by Nora Achrati, Tim Carlin, Steven Carpenter, Amanda Forstrom, Michael John Casey, Lydia Kraniotis, Scott McCormick, Rob McFadyen, Eric Messner, Marni Penning, Ken Yatta Rogers, & others (GraphicAudio)
• Earthlight, J. Michael Straczynski, narrated by Erik Braa, Pete Bradbury, Jonathan Davis, William DeMeritt, Robert Fass, Jeff Gurner, Ryan Haugen, David Lee Huynh, Mars Lipowski, Saskia Maarleveld, Kathleen McInerney, Brandon McInnis, Sean Kenin Elias Reyes, Stefan Rudnicki, Salli Saffioti, Kristen Sieh, Christopher Smith, Marc Thompson, and Will Watt (Penguin Random House Audio)

Short Stories

• WINNER: You Like It Darker: Stories, Stephen King, narrated by Will Patton with Stephen King (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, written and narrated by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Penguin Random House Audio)
• Letters from Klara, Tove Jansson, narrated by Indira Varma, translated by Thomas Teal (Saga Egmont)

Literary/Classics

• WINNER: James, Percival Everett, narrated by Dominic Hoffman (Penguin Random House Audio)
• The Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich, narrated by Marin Ireland (HarperCollins)
• Devil Is Fine, John Vercher, narrated by Dion Graham (Macmillan Audio)

UK

• WINNER: Northern Lights, Philip Pullman, narrated by Ruth Wilson (Penguin Random House Audio UK)
• Astrochimp, David Williams, narrated by Eric Meyers, Joanna Ruiz, Aaron Vodovoz, David Walliams, and Rebecca Yeo (HarperCollins UK)

Winners were announced at the Audie Awards Gala on March 4, 2025 in New York. For more information, including the complete list of winners, see the Audie Awards website.